Mikaela Shiffrin leaves Beijing 2022 without a medal: "My teammates are what carried me through this Olympics"

Mikaela Shiffrin ended her third Olympic Winter Games on Sunday (20 February) without winning a medal.

The American and her USA teammates reached the small final in the mixed team parallel, the last event in the alpine skiing programme at Beijing 2022, but were beaten by Norway on time countback after a 2-2 tie.

The US beat Slovakia and Italy on their way to the semi-finals, where they fell to Germany (1-3). Shiffrin - who always competed on the slower red course - lost three of her four head-to-head races: she beat Slovakian Rebeka Jankova by 0.64 seconds in the first round, but then was defeated by Marta Bassino in the quarter-finals (0.02 seconds), by Lena Duerr (0.10 seconds) in the semis, and by Thea Louise Stjernesund (0.52 seconds) in the small final.

The 26-year-old skiing superstar, who also missed out on medals in all her individual events, represented the US in the team event along with Paula Moltzan, Tommy Ford, and River Radamus.

"My teammates are what carried me throught this Olympics," Shiffrin told NBC after the race.

"Today, I have to emphasise how unbelievable it is for us to be here and be in the hunt for a medal. I guess people will say we came up short, but the thing is to have this depth on our team, coming from the US, competing in an European-dominated sport, coming here and having all of us with these guys skiing so strongly... River (Radamus) we were watching you at the bottom there and the fact that you were skiing so strongly, you've been giving us hope, that's the biggest win you can ever give us.

"And it's just been incredible to compete with you guys, after a long Olympics, this is my absolute favourite memory and I just want to thank you for that."

"I have had a lot of disappointing